On 2025-01-24 11:04 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
And, it would was close enough to make it obvious that if you want to
sail west from europe to the indies, you are going to run out of
supplies long before you get there! Unless you are dumb lucky, and
happen to bump into some land on the way.
The Chinese did the 1st east to west route.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/zheng-he-china-explorer-ships/
Columbus had a bad idea that the earth was MUCH smaller, so he thought
that he could make it.
Well the fact that HE had a map of the (round) Earth helped a great deal.
See the book "1421: The year that China discovered the world", (ebook),
and other writings.
